niteHawk's spot - February 2004 Archives

February 2004

Saturday 28 February

Grr - no more e/x-Mags (10:44) - Acording to Tom Kaye, the Emag is no more. The Emag is going on 4 years old and is due for a complete revamp. We will be selling off the last of them (about 250) and discontinuing that product. Now... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 27 February

Resignation Letters (14:32) - "Yesterday I woke up and realized that this is the worst career experience I've ever had. " Since I will be changing jobs, I decided that looking up some resignation letter samples would be a good idea... however the quote... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

So stolen from MeFi - Rainbow Kids show (12:21) - The Innuendo Episode, is essentially a "Christmas Tape" recording that was made by the cast an crew for thier own enjoyment... it was "refound" a few years back and boroadcast late at night... definatly worth the download.. no seriously, and... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Now this is something I shouldn't have seen :-) (10:57) - Matchstick Rockets Matchstick rockets are actual fully functional rockets that you can build in minutes from common household materials. They are also quite safe since each rocket is constructed from just one solitary little paper match. There just ain't enough... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 25 February

Uh... wicked ;-) (12:48) - So not linking this to anything... but take a look at the promo shot for this weeks Angel.... | 0 Trackbacks | 2 Comments

Monday 23 February

MMmmm Geek Girls... (11:58) - Newsflash - A secret about Velma's sweater Actually, this is slightly Jossy, as Linda Cardellini, talks up Seth Green... As for the title...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wolfram & Hart Annual Reiew... (11:49) - If I knew it was to be th last year, prehaps I would've went to this... chack out the guest list: SciFi's short write up of the Wolfram and Hart Annual Review. About 250 fans of the canceled vampire series... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

According to Fury... (11:46) - Angel's future at UPN isn't looking good - "...in all likelihood they don't have the financial wherewithal to continue the series...". He also doens't look too hoopeful on the "Movie of the week" format for Angel either.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Talk about awkward... (11:21) - Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Talk About Akward Moments "All through this I was staring out the window trying to make small talk with my mom but failing miserably. If and whenever I do end up proposing to someone I've... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 20 February

More Teen Titans figure pics (14:44) - I really really REALLY R-E-A-L-L-Y hate UGO's format.. to many ads, but they do have more Teen Titans action figure pictures! Starfire (*) and Raven (*) 3.5" figures: and the NEED TO GET Raven super deformed:... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Family Guy Toys!!!! (14:31) - No really - hate UGO's site design. However, look Family Guy Action Figures due to come out this year!!! From Mezco, the same guys that distribute the Living Dead Dolls.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Scooooooooooooooooby... (09:55) - SMG would like to point out that she and hubby Freddie "..often play cartoon at home..." Something is really wrong about that... But she likes performing with Seth Green...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Thursday 19 February

About freaking time! (14:04) - Not new news, but San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom declared that Same-sex marriages were now legal in his city last Tuesday (02/10/04). Based on that landmark decision, 100's upon 100's of couple flew, drove, and otherwise made thier way to... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

New Paintball wear... (10:04) - Love the shirt designs.. HATE the fact that it's an IE only site... sigh. BarrelPlug.com has an interesting idea for shirt designs for Paintball.. some of them come from players themselves. It's a good alternative to the JT shirts of... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Dye's new IN-GOGGLE timer (09:51) - Dye's new game timer sits inside thier invision mask. The Invision timer voice alert will beep and announce the time as it counts down: 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 minute points and the... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tivo Remote is Coolsville (09:42) - The TiVo remote (NYT link - try BugMeNot for one if you don't have) has many fans. One TiVo aficionado, Pat Hughes, a software engineer in San Jose, Calif., dressed up his two-month-old daughter as the remote for Halloween in... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 18 February

For good measure... (11:51) - The Geek Hierarchy From the FAQ: As a Ren Faire person, am I more or less geeky than someone who writes fanfic? This sort of conundrum is the very essence of the complex web of status and discarded candy wrappers... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

The Pagan Hireachy.... (11:47) - The Pagan Hierarchy As far as I can tell, Enochians trump the Golden Dawn, who tumps the Freemasons...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Tuesday 17 February

Road trip... (13:29) - Two women who allegedly dressed as Thelma and Louise on a Valentine's Day trip to the South-West could face up to two years jail. "They are not going to find Brad Pitt down this end of the world," Sen.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Should I really "shake it like a Polaroid picture?" (10:48) - Official Poloroid stance on shaking....... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Deaf to be protected from WItchcraft... (10:41) - From Neil Gaiman's Blog You know, if someone told me that a five-member panel had decided that deaf and hard-of-hearing people needed to be shielded from witchcraft on TV (like, well Bewitched, or I Dream of Jeannie. Or Scooby-Doo), not... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Friday 13 February

New BATCAVE playset (14:16) - Just Click Here. This thing looks HUGE!... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

More Toyfair (14:12) - Also shown off today is the new JLA Watchtower playset... coooooool!... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Teen Titans Toys (yea Toyfair this week!) (14:10) - Toy News International is showing off the press release for the new Teen Titan's Toys coming out from Bandai this year... The 3.5" Robin: Miniature Comic Book Heroes figures will also be available in packages of six (bascially SuperDeformed to... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Newsflash - Barbie and Ken are on the rocks... (13:57) - In a press release, Russell Arons. the pair's business manager (othewise known as the VP of marketing for Matell), stresses that the two will "remain friends". Rumors that the pair split due to "Cali Girl Barbie's" infatuation with Blaine. STATEMENT... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Angel on the Muppet show! (12:06) - A pic from Feb 25th's Angel eppie, written by Joss....... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Geekdom turns 30... (11:23) - I think it's time for you to move out of your mom's basement, when your RPG of choice turns 30 :-) D&D turns 30 years old.... I"ll admit that I actually own the original basic Red D&D box set... but... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Jenny - I got your number... no really... (11:10) - Here's an interesting bit of commerece... someone is actually selling 212-867-5309. You know the same number made famous by Tommy TuTone in the 80's? With the new phone number portability, you can put it on a cell, or even your... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Thursday 12 February

Master of Puppets.... (14:15) - Next weeks Angel, "Smile Time" looks to be interesting - written and directed by Ben Eduland of the Tick Fame... You gotta love that he even got a "Power SHot" with the Puppet hehehehe... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Fark Photoshop... (13:03) - New Photoshop contest on Fark - Photoshop a Google logo for a ficticious holiday heh... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Really - the gfunniest web comic ever... (11:18) - Lore Brand Comics I promoise I will not put up EVERY single Lore comic here, but this was too good :-)... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Wednesday 11 February

Technical Difficulty (13:45) - OK - Im fooling around with Style Sheets.. so colors are going to get wacky while Im playing around with them... whatever happend to simple HTML... SHEESH.... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Comcast wants to buy Disney? (11:47) - Comcast makes $54B bid for Disney - Feb. 11, 2004 Oh - this should be good to watch...... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

The next Office Space? (11:02) - Mike Judge, creator of Bevis and Butthead, and King of the Hill, who also happened to write the cult fav Office Space, has FINALLY decided on his next movie project.... Mr. 3001. The story of a man who, after being... | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments

Tuesday 10 February

Oh Hells Yeah... (well sorta) (15:12) - As was rumored, Lucasfile has confirmed that they will be releasing the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD coming Sept 21st or so..... OK - that's not Exactly true .... they are releasing the Special Editions of the original Trilogy... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

More Timmy's from Manike (14:42) - Since the Naughty Dogs decided to forgo WGP and become another NPS team, they get thier own signature series Timmy... I have a thing for Red/black guns, but I still like the alias better.. of course, the paw prints are... | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

I need to go to London (10:59) - Inexorably, the talk turns to orgasms. "I've been practising and I have gotten over the embarrassment factor. Every time I do it, I get more and more confident and bigger and bigger. Now I have to learn how to do... | 0 Comments

OZ and the Web (10:30) - Everything I Need To Know About Web Design I Learned Watching Oz: A List Apart This is surprisingly very good :-)... | 0 Comments

Monday 9 February

Hrrm - Buffy or Cordy as Wonder Woman? (16:59) - According to Sky News it seems that not only does Chrisma Carpenter want to play WOnder Woman, but now SMG has thrown her hat in the ring as well... and yet there isn't a movie yet! or... | 1 Comments

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (15:25) - Zap2It is reporting that the WB Conjured Up More 'Charmed' (ie - they've been pciked up.. so sue me, I like the show... but c'mon what guy wouldn't??)... | 1 Comments

New '04 Stock VF cocker... (13:01) - So the New '04 (Link to the '03 on Worr's Site. ) cocker is set to debut sometime next week... Eh - the milling is OK.. and the only thing Bud really changed is FINALLY including an adjustable LPR. So... | 0 Comments

More Penguins... (12:41) - Penguin Magic Shop. Pretty cool place - every trick seems to have a video available showing you how it is done, as well as instructions, etc... definatly a place for me to update some of my old tricks.. gotta keep... | 0 Comments

Why the Penguin? (12:40) - So, Linux's mascot is officially a Penguin.. Tux to be exact... but Why? The short short answer... "Linus likes penguins"....

My Dead Pool... (12:38) - ROTTEN DEAD POOL OK - so it's a bit morbid.. but hey, make a game out of it, and death is FUN :-P... | 0 Comments

The Batman (11:18) - Hee - A New WB Batman Cartoon.... Comics Continuum "The Batman will feature the most complex and intriguing character in comic book history in action-packed super-heroic adventures, melding the renowned character's extraordinary physical prowess and super-sleuthing skills with a new... | 0 Comments

Saturday 7 February

Perhaps the coolest shopping mall on earth! (22:29) - Tokyo Qool - Nakano Broadway This place has shops for Anime, Cels, Toys, Comic books, CosPlay (look that one up Im not linking it :-)) and more!... | 2 Comments

Friday 6 February

A Timmy I actually like the look of... (14:57) - THe new Warped Sportz "Dark Intimidator" (Rendering is better to see the cuts than the real pic is right now...) Man, Gino must give one hell of a price break to order a "custom" timmy, there's like 25 different ones... | 0 Comments

WRG Karnivorr (14:44) - WGP's new cocker.. the Karnivor Interesting... I can't decide if I like the "backwards" ASA.. didn't we all _just_ agree a year or two ago that 15deg FORWARD was the most comfortable? I love this sport.. reverse it, and NOW... | 0 Comments

Terror alert... (13:11) - The Terror Alert Bananna changes colors dependng on what the current terror threat level is as issued by the Dept of Homeland Security.... Odd.. and I thnk I have to keep it :-)... | 0 Comments

Way WAAAY more fun then it ought to be... (12:24) - I have no words.. it's long.. but strangly facinating... (WinMedia file embedded in the page) Hugi - Háhraði Basically.. guy playing the classics on tuned bicycle horns..... | 0 Comments

Anti-RIAA.... (12:12) - Although a little late (more of a winter holiday thought...) the What a Crappy Present site, strives to teach kids and parents that PrePackaged CDs are a crappy present. On that same note.. this is a pretty good parody of... | 0 Comments

So THAT's the reson for the gratuitous cleavage (not that there is anything wrong with that) (11:00) - Wonder Woman?l So that's why the clevage was so promanant.. Charisma was trying to fill Linnda Carter's..uh... shoes...... | 1 Comments

More Willow then you can shake a stick at... no not THAT stick... sheesh (09:31) - So MooreAction decided a while ago to produce a set of action figures based on Willow (after a long and pronounced fight with the fans of the Buffy figure line when they initially cancelled that line.) Paint masters are out,... | 0 Comments

Man do I want this.... (08:59) - Take a look at this D&D Cel. THis is probaby the only cel that I want very very badly that I don't have in my collection... now just to find the money :-)... | 1 Comments

Thursday 5 February

And now back from 1995 :-P (14:43) - Things We Will Never See On Star Trek stolen from Barking Spider... - A redshirt sneaks down a deserted corridor, turns a corner, and suddenly has a surprise birthday party. - A major character dies and isn't resurrected. - Anyone... | 0 Comments

Kill Me (14:39) - Kill me (Yahoo Pic) Rob Schnider with his own.. comment on Janet Jackson's little slip.... | 0 Comments

Can't get the sausage up? (14:29) - Extra Sasuge is the new Television ad for P.E.T.A. Now - Im not saying that eating animals is a good or bad thing, but Day-um that's a funny commercial... and for the record, I've never had any problems with the... | 0 Comments

Lore Rox! (10:26) - Lore Brand Comics Possibly one of the funniest "dry" humor comic strips on the web...... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 4 February

New Tamogatchi? (12:09) - Bandai to release new 'Tamagotchi' virtual pet game I'm Sorry - there was a need for this? Hell - I'd just like a Tamogothi instead...... | 1 Comments

Random thoughts... (10:11) - And now some words of wisdom via Sinfest.net (a hella great online comic!): If life is a movie most people would consider themselves the star of their own feature. Guys might imagine they're living some action adventure epic. Chicks... | 0 Comments

Monday 2 February

Barry & the bookbinders (14:27) - Years and years ago, listening to Dr. Demento on the radio, I kept cracking up at anything by Barry & the Bookbinders.... and now after 20 some odd years, they finally put out a CD... | 0 Comments

Since my Cable went out at 1730 EST on SUperbowl Sunday (09:45) - A list of all the superbowl ads from iFilm... | 0 Comments

Sunday 1 February

On that same token (22:14) - On that same token The Viewloader Envy? claims of 27bps and a cartridge loading system........ | 0 Comments

QLoader? (21:51) - QLoader? Interesting idea No Batteries to worry about, just springs and a slightly lower capicity in your pods.. well actually in thier pods as you have to use them at $25 a pop... I gots one on the way...... | 0 Comments

DIARY OF INDIGNITIES SPECIAL EDITION: Uncle Patricks Advice to Children (18:26) - DIARY OF INDIGNITIES SPECIAL EDITION: Uncle Patrick’s Advice to Children Such nuggets of wisdom as: All those skinheads over there? They’ll beat your ass. Burt Reynolds? Nope. Tom Selleck? Uh uh. Try Chile D. Molester. Shave that... | 0 Comments